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Rating crowdsourced annotations: evaluating contributions of variable quality and completeness (2013)
Journal Article
Foody, G. M. (2014). Rating crowdsourced annotations: evaluating contributions of variable quality and completeness. International Journal of Digital Earth, 7(8), 650-670. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2013.839008

Crowdsourcing has become a popular means to acquire data about the Earth and its environment inexpensively, but the data-sets obtained are typically imperfect and of unknown quality. Two common imperfections with crowdsourced data are the contributio... Read More about Rating crowdsourced annotations: evaluating contributions of variable quality and completeness.

Assessing the accuracy of volunteered geographic information arising from multiple contributors to an internet based collaborative project (2013)
Journal Article
Foody, G. M., See, L., Fritz, S., Van der Velde, M., Perger, C., Schill, C., & Boyd, D. (2013). Assessing the accuracy of volunteered geographic information arising from multiple contributors to an internet based collaborative project. Transactions in GIS, 17(6), 847-860. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12033

The recent rise of neogeography and citizen sensing has increased the opportunities for the use of crowdsourcing as a means to acquire data to support geographical research. The value of the resulting volunteered geographic information is, however, o... Read More about Assessing the accuracy of volunteered geographic information arising from multiple contributors to an internet based collaborative project.